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At roughly the same time that Italian art was beginning to reflect a reawakening of the classical spiritan epoch and style we call the Renaissancethe arts of Northern Europe were experiencing their own efflorescence. Painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts were pursued with a new vigor in the Netherlands, in Germany, in France, and in England, and resulted in a vast body of work that constitutes one of the glories of Western civilization. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the masters of the North developed styles quite distinct from those in the South: an attention to minute detail, particularly with regard to landscape, but also in domestic interiors; and an emotive piety that dramatized the sorrow and suffering of the Passion. Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment present a horrific vision of the death of Christ and the damnation of sinners, set against a deep and distant landscape, sensitively and realistically rendered. The Lamentation by Petrus Christus addresses the agony of the Passion with unflinching clarity. By the end of the fifteenth century, artists in Italy and in the regions north of the Alps were becoming more thoroughly aware of each oth

Who reads The Renaissance in the North?

Author

James Snyder; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher

The Museum, c1987.

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870994340

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Arts